I was blessed to get an education available to few black women in Africa at that time. Every woman should be able… — Julia Mavimbela Copy Share Image
When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have… — Dorothy Height Copy Share Image
I want to be an instrument to help lead the full story of EMILY's List and its relationship to Black women, and… — Laphonza Butler Copy Share Image
Based on census data from 2019, black women are only paid 61 cents to every dollar that a white man makes. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
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Let’s just say its not a stereotype that black women are less submissive and harder to deal with. Being around all them… — Taye Diggs Copy Share Image
I'm realizing, you don't need to change anything about yourself. This is who you are, and it's okay. That's daring. — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
“The voice of a Black woman should always be HERSELF ... No edits - no erasure - no pressure - no expectations… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
I was a mixed black girl existing in a westernized Hawaiian culture where petite Asian women were the ideal, in a white… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
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“Black women were beautifully created at birth. We were blessed with melanin in our skin, which makes us Exquisitely Beautiful. From the… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. … We have… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
Here, we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
. . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
“black women were working all day (often scrubbing the homes of white women), it was impossible for them also to fulfill the… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“The crude communal myth about black men is that we are in some manner unavailable to black women—either jailed, dead, gay, or… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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“Certain black women faced the triple hurdle—of being abolitionists in a slave society, of being black among white reformers, and of being… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black… — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
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Why when a so g comes on. The white women saids Oh my god thats my song. And the Black women says… — Jamario Jackson Copy Share Image
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There are hundreds of stories I've heard from black women from my generation, generations before me, and the next, that have never… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to stay and build healthy… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's… — Mara Brock Akil Copy Share Image
Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living. — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'll be forever grateful for everything Congresswoman Barbara Jordan did to pave the way for black women in politics. — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
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You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
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